AMPELIS GARRUI.US. .213 



rectly written, Sadio ^), a settlement on what is locally known as the Kittila 

 river, being an upper portion of the Ouuas-joki, which many miles to the south- 

 ward joins the great Kemi river at Rowa-niemi j ust below the Arctic Circle, and 

 thence runs into the Gulf of Bothnia. But this boy would never have found 

 what he did, had it not been for the presence and energy of Ludwig Matthias 

 Knoblock, who for so many years faithfully served Mr. WoUey, as he subse- 

 quently, and in still more northern latitudes, served the writer of these lines. 



I regret that it is not in my power to include in this work a view of the 

 place where the Waxwing-mystery was cleared up. A reproduction in fac- 

 simile of a slight sketch made by Mr. Wolley of the very tree in which the 

 first nest was found is given a few pages further on, and is the only illustra- 

 tion available. However, an engraving in the well-known ' Travels ' of 

 Dr. Clarke, after a drawing by that author, shews what is inscribed as a " View 

 of the Eiver Aunis, in the North of Lapland between Kongis and Kittila." '^ 

 In the Explanatory List of Plates prefixed to the work this one is called a 

 " View of the Aunis River, and of the Aunis Tunduri, a Mountain towards the 

 Som-ce of the River." Since the range which properly bears this last name 

 terminates some way to the northward of Kyro, and therefore considerably to 

 the northward of " Kongis ", it is impossible to reconcile these conflicting 

 statements, or to determine the position of the calm reach of water represented 

 by Dr. Clarke ; yet I doubt not that, allowing for certain conventionalities, 

 it probably gives no incorrect idea of the landscape on the banks of the Kittila 

 or upper portion of the Ounas river. But quiet as is the scene chosen by the 

 draughtsman, it must be understood that the river is in parts as rapid, as much 

 beset by rocks, and therefore as turbulent as any of its neighbouring streams ; 

 indeed Dr. Clarke himself states (totn. cit. p. 433) that after it issues from its 

 parent lake it " is one continued cataract, for many miles in extent," and subse- 

 quently compares its scenery to that on the banks of the Muonio, which 

 abounds in rapids and falls, and had been previously ascended by him. ^ 



§ 808. Five. — Sardio, Kemi Lappmark, 11 June, 1856. 

 " Cock bird snared. L. M. K." 



O.W. tab. X. %g.l-5. 



The first nest of Waxiving ever found for scientific purposes, so far 

 as J. W, knows. 



* The name is spelt Saajo on the Finnish Government map ; but, as 1 believe, by 

 a clerical error for Sadjo, i. e. Sadio. 



^ Travels in Various Countries of Scandinavia. By E. D. Clarke, LL.D. 

 London: 1838 (vol. i. pi. no. 23, to face page 436). 



' No account of Mr. WoUey's greatest achievement should, however, pass over 

 the independent discovery made two years later by Mr. Dresser. At present he 

 remains, so far as I am aware, not merely the only Englishman, but the only 

 naturalist of any European nation who has taken a Waxwing's egg with his own 

 hands. His narrative, in his own words, may be read in ' The DdIs ' for 1861 

 (pp. 102-104), and has thence been transferred to his admirable 'Birds of Europe.' 

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